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[Myounage]

... is that every combat encounter takes forever, with multiple
reinforcement waves. The ones that don't have singular enemies with
massive health bars. if an assassin shows up, the fight is instantly
about them as a mini-boss, since they have high damage and insane
health. Enemy health varies wildly despite same model and same enemy,
with some going down quickly and others having several times more hp for
no obvious reason. This is what makes the game as awful as it is.
Bioware tried to force every encounter to be some kind of epic battle
with envernding enemies or tough mini-bosses. There is no "quick and
dirty" or "fast and brutal" combat in DA II, despite the combat system
being tuned for that kind of fight. In other words, the nature of the
encounters works directly against the new combat system. Instead of
making each fight more fun or memorable as Bioware intended, it makes
the game a chore to play and very tiring.

What needed to be done
is for Bioware to normalize enemy health somewhere between the lowest
and the median values and massively cut back on the reinforcement waves,
using them only in specific fights and not EVERY FIGHT IN THE GAME.
Because the player is so use to having tons of enemies pop up out of
thin air, it detracts from the boss fights where this otherwise might
have been a nasty surprise. I distinctly remember fighting the high
dragon in act 3 and wondering, "Hey, when is it going to summon tons of
reinforcements? I'd better start saving up some AOE spells for when it
happens." In short, Dragon Age 2 is a bad game mostly because it is
tiring, predictable, and has an awkward balance of enemy hp / damage and
combat gameplay mechanics. It's not the combat mechanics or animations
that are bad. I actually prefer the feel to origins at times. It is
however severely out of place when every battle takes forever or enemies
have tons of health compared to the one next to them for no real
reason. That said, you should know that this is my least favorite
Bioware game by a HUGE margin. I am incredibly disappointed. I don't
even think of it as an "alright Biuoware game," it's just bad to me. My
biggest regret is hurrying through Awakening / Witch Hunt so I'd have an
import save for release. Those were much better games and I should have
spent more time with them.

Sigh.